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Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind

Ian's Messy Desk

Put pen to paper (or finger tips to keyboard) and record important dates in a calendar, notebook or on your mobile device. It also promotes sleep, which can improve focus and help consolidate memories. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus. Stay organized.

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Writing Rush | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Write down anything, and I mean *anything*, that would potentially be a new blog post, book idea, promotion, whatever. so that I can capture ideas when away from pen and paper (or keyboard and screen). Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 15, 2010 at 1:17 am As a stand-up comic, I could attest to this wholeheartedly.

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Sleep your way to the top | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It’s a great feeling to be able to sit down at the keyboard, fully confident in your ability, clean of any doubt or future-worry and, is especially great when the recommended 8.25 hours of sleep is achieved. Reply Shane Arthur ( @shanearthur ) June 28, 2010 at 11:16 am I,,,aaaaawaaaaawh,,,I agree, James. Paul Novak´s last blog.

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How to Improve Your Writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. I don’t know who wrote them and why they thought they had the right to sit before a keyboard and litter the Web with, um, substandard writing. So it’s a good exercise, although a bit painful.

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

I’m not talking about the manuals that promote get-rich-quick schemes or dodgy products peddled by snake-oil salespersons. No matter what the topic is, before you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have the qualifications to write about whatever you are about to share. The problem? Powered by frugal

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Do I write routinely about Policy and Management or about Labor Relations? I can say one thing, you sure have fire in your pen( or should I say keyboard) but I totally agree that all those years in college and unversity acquiring a B.A Reply Phil Simon ( @philsimon ) December 14, 2009 at 9:52 am Good post. Keep up the great work!!

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

It’s a contradiction in that we want to use the vehicle to promote ourselves, but that same vehicle is used for piracy. Just once in a while… I find I have those moments as well, and if you’re not right there with the pen or the keyboard, then you’ve lost it. The book give away thing is a promotional tactic.

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